[tanachu]

There is a big difference between someone who writes their songs and someone who doesn't.

And tell me just what is this difference and how is it synonymous with good music?

Just because someone writes their lyrics doesn't mean that the quality of music is going to be great. As I said before, take Avril Lavigne. Anyone can write about their feelings on a piece of paper and call it art.

There is no way you can express your own emotions by singing words that you never even wrote.

Says who? Namie has said that she can relate to her lyrics, and as stated before, she does have some songs which she wrote herself, namely "Say the Word". The reason why she doesn't like using her own lyrics is because she's shy and she knows that people will analyze them to know more about her life. Plus she can't do RnB lyrics anyway.

That's why I have a great deal of respect for artists like Hikki and Ayu because they actually have that talent.

So does Namie, but for reasons that I've already stated, she chooses not to write all of her lyrics, and that's fine too. It does not by any means make her music less sincere. Besides, why have respect for Hikki and Ayu for that yet not have respect for Namie for being able to do something that about 95% of other j-pop artists can't do, namely sing and dance exceptionally at the same time? Ayu and Hikki can't do that, guess I need to stop respecting them for what they can't do instead of respecting them for what they CAN do.

Namie, on the other hand, probably just isn't very good at songwriting, which is okay cuz she makes up for it in other ways (nice magazine shoots).

Magazine shoots? What? How about her dancing and singing capabilities?